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January 24, 2011, Monday

NEWS And the Winners Are For 27 years the Avery Fisher Artist Program has prophetically identified the promise in musicians like Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Richard Stoltzman. Yesterday Timothy Fain, violinist; Daniel...

NEWS Good vs. Evil It's back to the dark and hilarious days of the cold war at the Museum of Television and Radio, where Rocky the flying squirrel and his dimwitted moose pal, Bullwinkle, will again square off against the sinister though beatable...

Virtues of Persistence, Persistently Applied Juilliard Orchestra Juilliard Theater Richard Wernick's music, which once appeared a reconciliation of modernism with the mainstream, now seems positively defiant in standing up for dissonant...

Change a player or two in an orchestra or on a baseball team, and chances are you still have pretty much the same orchestra or baseball team. But change a player or two in a string quartet, and it may not be entirely clear what you have. ''We are...

Town Hall was once a major venue for classical music in New York. Many factors contributed to its loss of favor: deterioration of the building, the unattractiveness to concertgoers of its location just east of Times Square and the increasing...

January 22, 1997, Wednesday

Ronald Copes, the violinist in the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet, is to join the Juilliard String Quartet this summer, immediately after the group's final concert with its founding first violinist, Robert Mann. Mr. Mann, who has played in the Juilliard...

''So, are you shocked?'' asked Robert Mann, the first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, a few moments after saying that at the end of this season he would retire from the ensemble he helped found in 1946. His last New York performance with...

December 11, 1996, Wednesday

BY NOW, MILTON BABBITT IS accustomed to the polemics his work has generated. Yet Mr. Babbitt, an unreconstructed Serialist composer and imposing musical theorist who turned 80 in May, speaks charitably of colleagues who have castigated him. He views...